September 24, 2003 – 22:56
Tony and I resigned from the SLUG committee last week. Executive summary: Sometimes leadership means doing the right thing in macro, despite it feeling wrong and painful in micro.
Rusty Russell: “Every time I do a talk, I remember that talk by DaveM which started me contributing to Linux. I want to convey that incredible buzz to […]
September 24, 2003 – 19:45
So, if you’re not coming to linux.conf.au already, you definitely won’t want to come now: They’ve accepted my To The Teeth: Arming GNOME For Desktop Success talk. Suckers! (Thanks!)
Meanwhile, James mentioned that his talk was accepted (though I don’t know what the topic is), and of course Havoc Pennington, Superstar will also be there. I’m guessing […]
September 24, 2003 – 19:30
Promised to add Michael’s ooo-build to GARNOME a while back, so given that he recently announced a new version, and I was busily integrating some of Paul Drain’s GARNOME patches, I thought I’d give it a go:
$ du -sh download/*
140M download/OOO_1_1_0.tar.bz2
9.6M download/binutils-2.13.2.1.tar.bz2
20M download/gcc-3.2.2.tar.bz2
39M […]
September 24, 2003 – 19:26
Best wishes to Mark Finlay. He’ll be a force to be reckoned with very shortly - university and Free Software mix very well. Looking forward to seeing him at 100% again soon.
September 22, 2003 – 16:09
Can’t you see that everyone else is buying SUVs? Philip Greenspun dances The Heretic: “The programmers and managers using Java will feel good about themselves because they are using a tool that, in theory, has a lot of power for handling problems of tremendous complexity. Just like the suburbanite who drives his SUV to the […]
September 20, 2003 – 02:56
Jonathan Schwartz dives feet-forward into his own mouth: “Also, let me really clear about our Linux strategy. We don’t have one. We don’t at all. We do not believe that Linux plays a role on the server. Period.”
But that’s not all: “While [IBM & HP] have done a superb job of telling the world that Linux […]
September 12, 2003 – 21:08
Some random updates.
Luis was quoted in an eWeek article about GNOME 2.4, which unfortunately had a horrible headline. On reading that page, I found that eWeek covered GARNOME back when 2.2 was released - weird!
Rusty, Tridge, Kim and Martin took out the Australian Open Source Awards this year - congratulations! All of their contributions have affected my […]
September 10, 2003 – 04:46
Ars Technica’s elite (and incredibly fair) review of GNOME 2.4 D&DP is up: Inside the GNOME 2.4 Desktop & Developer Platform. Very rocking stuff. Meanwhile, the actual 2.4.0 release is merely hours away!
September 9, 2003 – 13:28
Mark Finlay is designing a GNOME scanning interface. A couple of suggestions from a former print design hackeur:
The window is taller than it is wide, which can be useful or frustrating. On one hand, it’s kinda suboptimal for the 4:3 and 16:9 monitors in general use, and may be too big for some resolutions (though this […]
September 9, 2003 – 06:34
“RU 18-23 with the ability to sing/dance? RU streetwise, outgoing, ambitious and dedicated?” The busy person’s guide to music over the last 60 years.
